The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-24. 400550 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) Norman Bain, Wireless Air Gunner of Blackburn, Vic (left), and 406479 Flt Lt A. B. (Sam) Giles, Pilot of Claremont, WA, ready for take-off on an attack on Japanese rail targets in Thailand. They are wearing Ghurka kukris for use as jungle knives in case they are forced down. Both are RAAF members serving with No. 355 Squadron RAF.
Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-24. Liberator bomber aircraft of No. 355 Squadron RAF lined up at Salbani airfield ready for an early-morning take-off to attack Japanese rail targets in Thailand.
Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-24. Liberator bomber aircraft of No. 355 Squadron RAF lined up at Salbani airfield ready for an early-morning take-off to attack Japanese rail targets in Thailand.
Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-23. Informal group portrait of RAAF members of No. 355 (Liberator) Squadron RAF being briefed by Wing Commander (Wg Cdr) J. Martin DFC, RAF, for a mission against Lampa
Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-24. 425354 Warrant Officer (WO) Reg R. Postle, Wireless Air Gunner (WAG) of Kingaroy, Qld, lights a cigarette for his cousin, 426680 WO Jim Postle, WAG of Coopers Plain
Calcutta, India. c. 1945. Most interesting items in this collection of all kinds of hardware, from carpenter's tools to garbage caps, are Ghurka Kukris, here being inspected by RAAF men on leave at th
Salbani, Bengal, India. 1944-11-24. RAAF members of No. 355 (Liberator) Squadron RAF crew being interrogated after a raid on railway targets in Siam (Thailand). Left to right: Flight Lieutenant E. Eck
